Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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puberula, fere 3'" longa, rubella. Receptaculuni fructus succoso-<br />
carnulentum, kete rubrum, sapidum, e tuberculis mox majusculia<br />
coalitis constans, varie lobatum. Caryopses paucas, saturate rubra,<br />
globoso-ovat•, l•vissimae, ¿-J-pollicares. Pericarpium tenuiter<br />
carnulento-coriaceum. Albumen absens. Embryon globoso-ovatum<br />
v. fere globosum. Cotyledones valde inaequales ; altera maxima,<br />
ovato-globosa, incisione longitudinali in lobos 2 mutue accumbentes<br />
divisa et ad junctionem loborum in processum brevem triangulärem<br />
producta ; cotyledon altera minuta inter lobos alterius inclusa,<br />
foliácea, fere rotunda, oblique complicata, vix lineam longa. Ra-<br />
dícula brevissima, cylindrica, supera, \-V" longa. Similem em-<br />
bryonis structuram praclar. Walk. Arnott de Epicarpuro orieutali<br />
indicat. Stirps subgenerice (nisi generis valore) ab originali<br />
Malaisia tortuosa jam propter embryonem nullo modo chrysaloideum<br />
separabilis.<br />
De Malaisiae genere confères Blanco Flora de Filipinas ed. i. 789 ;<br />
edit. ii. 543 ; Arnott in Hook. Kew Misc. iv. 6 ; Miq. Fl. Ind.<br />
Batav. iv. 281.<br />
Cl. Blume (Mus. Bot. Lugdun. ii. 58) Sponiam asperam late per<br />
Australian! orientaient et borealem divulgatam ad genus ïremaî<br />
obsoletum duxit. Iconem dedi in Plauts of Vict. plat. xc.<br />
Antiaris macrophylla extra locum detectionis Brownio indica-<br />
tum (Append, to Flind. Voy. ii. 602, tab. 5) nondum reperta<br />
videtur.<br />
Ficus rubiginosa (Vent. Jardin de la Malmais. 1 114 ; F. aus-<br />
tralis, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1138; Urostigma rubiginosum, Gasp.<br />
Ricerche sulla Natura del Fico) a portu Jacksonii in Novam<br />
Angliam migrât, saepe rupibus enascens. Arbor usque 40'.<br />
Ficus macrophylla (Desf. Catal. Hort. Paris, sec. Pers. Synops.<br />
ii. 609, non Roxburgh ; Urostigma maçrophyllum, Miq. in Hook.<br />
Lond. Journ. vi. 560) mihi nota a fluminibus McLeay's, Bellinger's,<br />
Clarence's et Brisbane's River, sicut a sinu Rockingham's Bay,<br />
tnultis forsan locis intervenientibus obvia. Arbor grandis, umbro-<br />
sissima, inter aptissimas secus viarum latera in zonis calidioribus<br />
colendas. Fructus globosi, 1-1^-pollicares, acute apiculati, edules,<br />
vix suaves ; sed nativi hisce utuntur. Arbor caoutchouc producit.<br />
Ficus Leichhardtii (Urostigma Leichhardtii, Miq. Journ. de<br />
Botaniq. Néerlandaise 1861, 235) occurrit in Whitsunday-Island<br />
et ad Rockingham's Bay inter rupes. Prsecedeiiti evidenter cognata.<br />
Arbor 20'. Fructus semipollicares, flavi. Folia non raro acuta.<br />
Ficus platypoda (AU. Cunn. sec. Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ.<br />
vi. 561 ; Urostigma platypodum, Miq. locis citatis) per regiones<br />
aridiores Australie tropic• dispersa est, tali modo in Australia<br />
centrali et occidentali usque ad sinum Shark-Bay provenit, et nisi<br />
fallor montes Blue Mountains attinet. Fructus vitellini, injucmidi,<br />
plane maturati interdum Juglandis magnitudine. Tn primo Cres-<br />
cendi statu ssepe aliis arboribus parasita, lluic Urostigma vitel-